Two women, two children fatally shot in Indy

January 16, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The shooting deaths of two children and the mothers who held them sent shock waves through a city neighborhood Tuesday as police searched for two men seen running from the victims' home and residents demanded an end to violence. All four victims were shot repeatedly late Monday night, said Indianapolis police Assistant Chief Eva Talley-Sanders. All died at the house on the city's north side except for 4-month-old Charlii Yarrell, who died at a hospital. The other victims were Jordan Hunt, 23 months, his mother, Gina Hunt, 24, and Charlii's mother, Andrea Yarrell, 24. The Indianapolis Star reported police received a 911 call from Annie Boyd, whose son, Gene Boyd, was Andrea Yarrell's boyfriend. Boyd told the newspaper her son, who is in the Indianapolis Men's Work Release Center on charges in a drug case, was talking by phone with Yarrell when he heard someone break into the home. "He heard the shot, then heard Gina holler out: 'Those are my babies!"' Boyd said. "After that the phone went dead." Two handguns were found within a block of the house, where all four of those killed lived, a police spokesman said.